From 3e05705a0945b2eaa5601975beaf870e9b24c4eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Alexander E. Patrakov" Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 23:04:52 +0000 Subject: Re-added the "background" option to /etc/vimrc git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@3777 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- chapter01/changelog.xml | 4 ++++ chapter06/vim.xml | 8 ++++++++ general.ent | 4 ++-- 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml index d64b2d12a..ec64d33a3 100644 --- a/chapter01/changelog.xml +++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml @@ -107,6 +107,10 @@ first a summary, then a detailed log. +June 12, 2004 [alexander]: Re-added the "background" option to +/etc/vimrc, since it has some educational value. Put this option inside an "if" +statement because it applies to some, not all, terminals + June 11, 2004 [winkie]: Dropped hackish GRUB instructions in favor of a patch from upstream. diff --git a/chapter06/vim.xml b/chapter06/vim.xml index 18b810d31..87342421a 100644 --- a/chapter06/vim.xml +++ b/chapter06/vim.xml @@ -106,6 +106,9 @@ set nocompatible set backspace=2 syntax on set fileencodings=ucs-bom,utf-8,your-8-bit-charset +if (&term == "iterm") || (&term == "putty") + set background=dark +endif " End /etc/vimrc EOF @@ -126,6 +129,11 @@ like Fedora Core use UTF-8, and conservative ones like Debian use traditional 8-bit encodings for text files. If you have not passed the switch to the ./configure command above, this line will not work. +Finally, the if statement with the +set background=dark corrects vim's +guess about the background color of some terminal emulators. This gives the +highliting a better color scheme for use on the black background of +these programs. Documentation for other available options can be obtained by running diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent index 77325875f..452e33bde 100644 --- a/general.ent +++ b/general.ent @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ - - + + -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf